Contemporary

The Sardinian Mother and the Hope of Her Wonderful Son, the work of Costantino Nivola. Photo by Pierluigi Dessì, from Catalogo BBCC RAS

Contemporary sculpture in Sardinia is a fascinating journey that transforms the island's ancient stone into a universal language. After World War II, visionary artists broke their ties with the traditional figurative to dialogue with global currents. This evolution merges the millenary Sardinian identity, linked to Nuragic myths and the earth, with the experimentation of new materials and geometric shapes.

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Costantino Nivola

He is among the few sculptors who have added a new execution technique to those that already exist: sand-casting, with which he performs his most demanding works starting in the 1950s. It is a relief obtained with a simp...

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Sebastiano Satta Square, detail of one of the bronze sculptures set in granite monoliths. Photo by Mauro Murgia, from Digital Resources Sardinia

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Satta Square in Nuoro

Against the tendency, still common today in Sardinia, to give urban spaces, during “restoration”, a flat Renaissance stereometry, Nivola maintains the sloping course of the square, which favors the connection between the...

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